No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply-some would say totally-involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be "app-dependent" versus[...]
A leading cognitive psychologist discusses how young children learn to draw, make music, and tell stories and discusses how studies of prodigies and brain damage shed light on issues of creativity and cognition[...]
Fifteen years ago, psychologist and educator Howard Gardner introduced the idea of multiple intelligences, challenging the presumption that intelligence consists of verbal or analytic abilities onlythose intelligences that schools tend to measure. He argued for a broader understanding of the intell[...]
First published in 1983 and now available with a new introduction by the author, Gardners trailblazing book revolutionized the worlds of education and psychology by positing that rather than a single type of intelligence, we have severalmost of which are neglected by standard testing and educational[...]
Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.[...]
This groundbreaking book, by three world-renowned psychologists, reveals how professionals succeed in carrying out work that is both expert and socially responsible in relentlessly market-driven times. What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and et[...]
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity - explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences (over 200,000 copies in print combined) - have revolu[...]
From ancient times, philosophers, theologians, and artists have attempted to describe and categorize the defining virtues of civilization. In "Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed," renowned education authority Howard Gardner explores the meaning of the title's three virtues in an age when vast tech[...]
The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge?.[...]
An updated edition of the multiple intelligences theory explains the concept of multiple intelligences, describes the diverse educational applications of the theory, and discusses its implications for future trends in teaching. Reprint.[...]
Filled with original essays by Howard Gardner, William Damon, Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, and Jeanne Nakamura and based on a large-scale research project, the GoodWork(r) Project, Responsibility at Work reflects the information gleaned from in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 people from nine dif[...]
Thirteen critical essays challenge Howard Gardner's theories of multiple intelligences, ability traits, U-shaped curves in development, and other psychological concepts of spirituality, creativity, and leadership. All are answered by Gardner himself, and his pungent replies, coupled with the essays,[...]
In Changing Minds, Gardner examines one of the most puzzling and most examined questions of human psychology: why it's so difficult to change our own minds and each other's and what happens when we do actually change our minds Drawing on his work on multiple intelligence and case studies of public l[...]
In his book, Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead and takes that thinking to the next level. Concise and engaging, his book provides valuable insights for those charged with training and developing organizational leaders, both today and tomorrow.[...]
A leading psychologist and author of Frames of Mind draws on years of cognitive research and a series of case studies to provide a close-up look at seven important factors that impel or thwart significant shifts from one of thinking to a new one, in a study that reveals what happens during the cours[...]
Vi lever i en tid av stora förändringar som innebär ökad globalisering, ständigt mer information, krockar mellan kulturer samt en stärkt ledarställning för naturvetenskap och teknologi. Dessa förändringar kräver nya sätt att lära ut och tänka i skolan, på jobbet och i samhället. I Fe[...]
In "Leading Minds," Gardner and his research associate at Harvard Project Zero, Emma Laskin, apply a cognitive lens to leadership, drawing on Gardner's groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity to offer fascinating revelations about the minds of leaders and those who follow them. This reiss[...]
Since it was first published in 1993, "Creating Minds" has served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as a paperback reissue with a new introduction by the author, the book uses portraits of seven extraordinary individuals to reveal the patterns that drive the creative process--a[...]